I saw my team last season with whole team not performing like his, they recovered once i got rid off the dud apple (lol) and went on to win the champions league, couldn't recover from such a bad start in the league though and scraped 3rd.

I would blame one or all of his new signings as being bad form player/s who bring down the rest of the team, i would sell and replace these players and see what happens...

Am refusing to do this myself this season as i think 2 of my new signings may be bad form players but they are both close to 7 stars and am just refusing to sell them having paid for them!! Gggrrrrrrr!!!!